New Super Mario Bros. (latest pics)

[grue]

I've some video from my dad's digital camera which is in .asf format but I'd really like to convert it to Mpeg so it can be watched on his DVD player. Anybody know of any coverters, prefferably sharware or, even better, freeware. Thank you in advance, everyone.

Is it in DS format?

[pasquinelli]

So it's another Mario game. And we take the piss out of EA for rebadging Fifa every year. Super Mario Land was good, it consumed a month of the lives of people I work with, and we had good fun completing it, but I doubt we'd want to sit through another version.

Mind you, Tetris DS could be fun, but that's simply because it's one of the simplest games on the planet, and so long as you keep the original gameplay in there it can't go wrong (so I fully expect the gameplay to be "different" and strange and not as good as the original).

Super Mario World is the most compelling game I have ever played in my life.

It's the best game in the world, innit?

best launch title in the world, but then yoshi's island came along... it's way better

plus SMB3 is better than SMW, also...

no. smw is ~abazillion times better then anything. zoot is right.

[Spoongod]

I've some video from my dad's digital camera which is in .asf format but I'd really like to convert it to Mpeg so it can be watched on his DVD player. Anybody know of any coverters, prefferably sharware or, even better, freeware. Thank you in advance, everyone.

Is it in DS format?

Quiet, you.

Hi, my name's Spoongod and I'm a thick bastard.

[grue]

I've some video from my dad's digital camera which is in .asf format but I'd really like to convert it to Mpeg so it can be watched on his DVD player. Anybody know of any coverters, prefferably sharware or, even better, freeware. Thank you in advance, everyone.

Is it in DS format?

Quiet, you.

Hi, my name's Spoongod and I'm a thick bastard.

[disciple]

Also, I've not yet seen a copy of Electroplankton for sale. Argh.. I NEED THAT BLOOMIN' GAME!!!!

Have you tried.... "looking".

It's available on every major import site, play-asia, lik-sang etc.

e.g. http://www.videogamesplus.ca/product_in ... s_id=10311

Get it ordered, stop faffing about!

[Spoongod]

Also, I've not yet seen a copy of Electroplankton for sale. Argh.. I NEED THAT BLOOMIN' GAME!!!!

Have you tried.... "looking".

It's available on every major import site, play-asia, lik-sang etc!!

e.g. http://www.videogamesplus.ca/product_in ... s_id=10311

Yeah, but I'm a puss who doesn't really like using his card over the intracabbages. Also, isn't it only available in Japanese? If there is an English Language version, no real problem but even though I'm sure language isn't much of an issue with a musical toy like this it would slightly aggrevate me. Oddly, this doesn't apply to me with shooters or platformers.

[disciple]

Don't blame you, it's crap!

[Spoongod]

Don't blame you, it's crap!

Hmm? Electroplankton is crap? Is it just too restrictive, are do you not really enjoy messing about with music? I've often feared it may be a bit basic, but people haven't really explained it to me.

[Xstreme]

It was all the rage on here months back but it's since gone really quiet. A fad with which you soon get bored with little or no incentive to replay? I'm not saying that's the case as I've never played it but i'd be interested to hear if anyone who jumped on the Electroplankton bandwagon a while back still plays it now. I'm intrigued enough to think about picking a copy up on ebay when I get my Lite.

[disciple]

Don't blame you, it's crap!

Hmm? Electroplankton is crap? Is it just too restrictive, are do you not really enjoy messing about with music? I've often feared it may be a bit basic, but people haven't really explained it to me.

Well no, it's not crap at all. It's just you were "I BLOOMING WANT THIS GAME" one minute, the next you were "I think it would slightly aggrevate me!"

it's good.... but like a lot of DS games... lacking in content.

The Japanese/English thing really isn't an issue, there is absolutely bugger all text in it.

It's just a musical toy with around 10 or so 'games'. Of course some of the 10 are crap, only 4 or so are actually worth playing round with for any decent length of time. The rest will give you maybe 10-15 minutes of fun.

What is there is good, but there's only so long you can shoot plankton at plants for while twiddling the plankton trajectory and leaf angle.

It's one of those things, I've showed it to musical minded mates and they've been really impressed with it "Wow!!", but 20 minutes later they've lost interest.

It's unique of course and like nothing else which is a cool thing and some might buy it for that alone.

[Spoongod]

Don't blame you, it's crap!

Hmm? Electroplankton is crap? Is it just too restrictive, are do you not really enjoy messing about with music? I've often feared it may be a bit basic, but people haven't really explained it to me.

Well no, it's not crap at all. It's just you were "I BLOOMING WANT THIS GAME" one minute, the next you were "I think it would slightly aggrevate me!"

...It's one of those things, I've showed it to musical minded mates and they've been really impressed with it "Wow!!", but 20 minutes later they've lost interest.

Well, I do want it. It's just that although I'd still enjoy it if it were fun, I'd always wonder what the text said if it were in English, hence my possible agrivation.

I think I should own it anyway, but I wouldn't be surprised if I also found it boring quite soom much the same as your musical friends have. I'd want to make new stuff all the time, or at least have lots of ways to play with the tunes I had. But it sounds like something special, so maybe it's worth the money and the small language problems.

[sarabob]

And the review is up at IGN, also many vids in GameSpot and IGN.

Excellent stuff

http://ds.ign.com/articles/705/705537p1.html

They don't point out that a good few of the levels are reworks of "classic" mario levels (for good or bad) though.

Admittedly there aren't as many gameplay innovations in New Super Mario Bros. as compared to previous Super Mario releases, but that's mostly due to the fact that much of platforming's innovations are related to 3D designs.

"There's not as much innovation because people only innovate in 3d"?

[IronGiant]

They don't point out that a good few of the levels are reworks of "classic" mario levels (for good or bad) though.

I was wondering if there would be any such reworkings - do we know just how many of the game levels are effectively 'remakes'? Or is it very fragmentary?

[PVB]

Well, I do want it. It's just that although I'd still enjoy it if it were fun, I'd always wonder what the text said if it were in English, hence my possible agrivation.

I think I should own it anyway, but I wouldn't be surprised if I also found it boring quite soom much the same as your musical friends have. I'd want to make new stuff all the time, or at least have lots of ways to play with the tunes I had. But it sounds like something special, so maybe it's worth the money and the small language problems.

There is an English (US) version out now, the UK should get it in July/August.

[Spoongod]

Well, I do want it. It's just that although I'd still enjoy it if it were fun, I'd always wonder what the text said if it were in English, hence my possible agrivation.

I think I should own it anyway, but I wouldn't be surprised if I also found it boring quite soom much the same as your musical friends have. I'd want to make new stuff all the time, or at least have lots of ways to play with the tunes I had. But it sounds like something special, so maybe it's worth the money and the small language problems.

There is an English (US) version out now, the UK should get it in July/August.

THanks. That's what I wanted to know.

I do 'need' it, but I don't buy games over the internet. I'll get it as soon as it's finally released on our shores.